If bones could scream, a bloodcurdling din would be reverberating through a 500-year-old cemetery in Peru. Human skeletons unearthed there have yielded the first direct evidence of Inca fatalities ...

Inca is known for its wine cellars. The town was a mass producer of wine from the 17th to 19th centuries when insects destroyed the industry and its inhabitants turned to other activities such as ...

Lima, Jul 8 (EFE).Lima, Jul 8 (EFE). — Spanish historian and journalist Santiago del Valle’s book “Vilcabamba: The Sacred Refuge of the Incas” looks back at the 16 expeditions carried out since 1997 ...

The abandoned city of Machu Picchu is one legacy of the Spanish conquest of the Incas. Traces of air pollution in a Peruvian ice cap are another. Laurie Chamberlain/Corbis The arrival of the Spanish ...

Silver lured the Spanish Empire to South America in the sixteenth century, when conquistadores took on the mighty Incan Empire in present-day Peru. In 1532 at the Battle of Cajamarca, Francisco ...

Ice cores are often relied on to be natural archives of past climate, capturing information that predates both our measurements and our greenhouse gas emissions. They’re a way of having records of the ...

Ronald Wright's latest novel The Gold Eaters— which tells the story of a young boy who becomes entangled in the Spanish invasion of the Incan empire — was inspired both by the years the award-winning ...

Lima, Jul 8 (EFE). — Spanish historian and journalist Santiago del Valle’s book “Vilcabamba: The Sacred Refuge of the Incas” looks back at the 16 expeditions carried out since 1997 to locate Hatun ...